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Sand at Nohant by Françoise Gilot. Copyright
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The
George Sand Association is
a literary society founded at Hofstra
University in 1976 as the Friends
of George Sand. The purpose of the
society is to encourage and foster
research and scholarship on George
Sand. Members also have access to
the society's discussion group on
the internet.
As an allied organization of the
Modern Language Association, the George Sand Association organizes
panels and conducts its annual business
meeting at the MLA convention.
The
society also co-sponsors conferences on George Sand.
The President
of the George Sand
Association is
Catherine Nesci, Professor
of French and Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies
at University of
California, Santa Barbara.
She can be contacted at
her email
address: cnesci@frit.ucsb.edu. The Vice President is Pratima Prasad, Associate Professor of French at the University of Massachussets Boston (pratima.prasad@umb.edu). The
Treasurer is Alexandra Wettlaufer, Associate Professor of French and
Comparative Literature at University of Texas at Austin (akw@mail.utexas.edu).
GSA publishes an annual scholarly and
refereed journal, George
Sand Studies. The
co-editors-in-chief of the journal
are Françoise Massardier-Kenney
(fkenney@kent.edu)
and Isabelle Naginski (isabelle.naginski@tufts.edu) and David A. Powell (david.a.powell@hofstra.edu). George Sand Studies is catalogued by the MLA and is a member of CELJ.
GSA is a tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) organization.
This site is maintained by David
A. Powell, david.a.powell@hofstra.edu.
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Last modified 10 October 2011 |
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| On
the event of the 30th anniversary of the George Sand Association, some
of the founding members gathered their recollections to produce a
history of the first ten years of the society. Click here to read the history. |
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| Nouvelles - News
The Modern Language Association Convention will be held in Seattle January 5-8, 2012. GSA will host two sessions:
1) "George Sand and/in Translation":
2) “Literature, Gender, and the Press: Around and Beyond George Sand", in collaboration with the affiliate MLA organization Women in French.
Titles and Abstracts for both sessions can be found under "conferences" and "MLA 2012."
For more, click on the MLA link (conferences - MLA).
The George Sand Association will also hold a business meeting during the upcoming MLA Convention, on Friday, January 6, 11:45am-1:00pm, after our second session GSA-WIF session. Location TBA
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